Dirigible headlight



June 19, 1923. 59268 C. C. SMITH DIRIGIBLE HEADLIGHT Filed March 21 1921 Patented June 19, 1223.

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CECIL cnnnrns sMITH, or SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, nusTnALIA;

nrarernrin HEADLIGHT.

Application filed March 21, 1921. Serial No. 454,187.

(GRANTED UNDER THE PROVISIONS or THE ACT or MARCH 3, 1921, 41 STAT. n, 1313.

To all whom it may concern: 13 has integral with it the bracket 22 secured Be it known that I, CECIL CHARLES SMITH, by a bolt 23 orlike fastening to the chassis a subject of the King of Great Britain, re- 8 or to the windscreen 11 or other convenient siding at Chelmsford, Reginald Street, position. On one of the steering arms 24 is 55' Watersleigh, Sydney, in the State of New a clip 25 by which is attached the end or South Vales, Commonwealth of Australia, ends of the Bowden wires 17 and on the have invented certain new and useful Imfront axle 26 is mounted a suitable clamp 27 provements in Dirigible Headlights (for provided with holes 28 in which are held the which I have filed an application in Ausends of the outer Bowden members 18. This 60 tralia, March 18, 1920, No. 14,806, and New clamp may vary according to the section of Zealand, December 16, 1920, No. 45,089), of the axle and has a suitable fastening such which the following is a specification. as the screw 29.

This invention relates to improvements in In operation, when the steering wheel is automatic track following lights for self moved to turn the front road wheels in the 65 propelled vehicles provided with a steerable usual manner, the steering arm 24 to which front axle. the wires 17 are secured effects a pull on said The present invention has been devised to wires causing partial rotation of the respecenable the lights to be placed on the front tive wheels 1a and the spindles 12 thereon of the chassis (and) or on the dashboard, thereby carrying the corresponding lamps 70 wind-screen supports, or other convenient to the same angle as the front road wheels, position. If desired, one or all the lights such partial rotation being controlled by the may be automatically operated. tension springs 20 and thereby avoiding any I will now refer to the accompanying vlbration of thelamps and flicker of the sheet of drawings in which, lights. When the steermg arm is moved to 75 Figure 1 is a partial plan of a vehicle cause the vehicle to travel with its four frame provided with lamps adapted to be wheels in alignment the lamps are simulautomatically partially rotated correspondtaneously'returned to the straight or normal ing to the inclination of the front wheels. position.

Figure 2 is an elevation partly in section It is obvious that one or several of the 80 of a lamp and its operating mechanism. lamps may be coupled by the Bowden wire Figure 3 is a section on the line 22, Big or wires to the steering arm. It is also clear ure 2, and that the lamps on one side may be operated Figure 4, an elevation of the preferred by the steering arm on the opposite side in form of clamp for the outer member or which case the springs 20 and Bowden wires 85' members of the Bowden wire or wires. would be oppositely secured to their respec- The same numerals indicate the same or tive wheels and casings thereof. corresponding parts. I am aware that it has previously been 6 and 7 represent the lamps on the chassis proposed to turn vehicle lamps by Bowden 8, and 9 and 10 the side or spot lights on the wires manually operated. 90

windscreen 11. Each lamp is mounted I =claim rigidly on a spindle 12 to which is secured, In a dirigible headlight, a casing having within a casing 13, a wheel it provided with means to attach the sameto a member of an a circumferential groove 15 and a similar automobile, a lamp-carrying shaft mounted groove 16. Instead of a wheel I may have a in the said casing for rotation and provided 95 quadrant or partial wheel. In the groove with a pulley, a Bowden wire having its in- 15 is attached one end of a Bowden inner ner member extended through an opening in member 17 having its outer member 18 abutthe casing and attached at one end to said ting outside the casing 13. The casing 18 pulley, the outer member of said Bowden has secured thereto at 19 one end of a spring wire near said end, bearing against said cas- 1 20 which takes in the groove 16 of the wheel ing, means to attach the opposite end of the 14 to which it is secured at 21. The casing inner member of the Bowden wire to a steering arm, and EL clamp for attachment to a front axle and forming a guide for the inner member of the Bowden Wire, the outer member of the Bowden Wire bearing against said clampfand a spring attached to the pulley and t0 the casing to turn the pulley and shaft in one direetion.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CECIL CHARLES SMITH. Witnesses:

CHARLES E. GRAHAM,

HERBERT G BRIQGEMN. 

